Heating Up the Guts of Gas Giants
Astrobites reports on how hot Jupiters’ toasty exteriors affect their atmospheres and deep interiors.
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Using Mergers to Understand Neutron Stars
Can the mergers of neutron stars with another type of exotic object, black holes, reveal important information?
Not so Fast: Some Stars Show a Spin-down Slowdown
Take a moment to relax with today’s post about stellar rotation slowdown. All the stars are winding down, too — or are they?
Inferring History from Atmospheres
Can we use clues from the present to figure out how a planet has been blasted by the radiation of its host star in the past?
Making It Rain in the Circumgalactic Medium
Astrobites reports on how enhanced resolution in cosmological simulations has now revealed new structure in the circumgalactic medium.
Featured Image: Oscillations from Merging Giants
What happens to accreting gas when two supermassive black holes merge? Dramatic simulations provide new clues.